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[Yoink]

Ha, Ahab's awesome! Ettin's are pretty freaking tough, even worse than hydras in my opinion.
...Just hope you don't meet any whales...

[Kiktamo]

I have learned that apparently bogeymen are not the only night creature you can meet while traveling....I have learned the hard way.....It went something like this.

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Night creature!
The Ogre Mate Of Shadow strangles Your throat!
You retch.
You have bled to death.

In short summary more happened than that including the fact that it first killed my lasher companion after giving me a mortal wound and the came back to finish me off.

[killran]

Sorta wrote/played the last third of this story semi-drunk but I ran it through Word so it should be okay

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Ana made the short journey through the desert outfitted in the best goods the hamlet could give him to the nearby castle which was owned by the lord who ruled over the people. He had precious little armour with only a few pieces of leather but an iron short sword and copper shield offered some protection and the ability to cause damage. The castle was a large, imposing structure comprised of rough, dark magnetite which, being one of the few semi valuable stones in the region went straight to the lords.  Of course, Ana had no intention of asking the lord for use of his services, as his head would probably be quickly removed from his shoulders; but he knew of his soldiers hatred of the inactivity they endured by being forced to protect him. He also knew that the lord’s incompetence and laziness would ensure that he wouldn’t care if a few disappeared so he asked around the courtyard for followers.

It didn’t take long before he had two companions alongside him, Siga the maceman and Arkur the lasher. Both were more than happy at the chance for some action and were ready to fight even if it meant death. The journey to the bandit camp took 2 days, at which they had to stop at some houses to rest. When asked about Thruni the villagers pointed out that recent attacks by her bandit group had been carried out without her and it is suspected she may have injury or illness and be resting at her camp. The villager pointed out that if Ana and his group moved quickly he could make it to the camp whilst her thugs were off collecting protection money. Ana was heartened by this news, but as always kept his emotions inside, instead offering a thank you and generous tip to the villager.

The 3 set off at dawn and quickly came upon the site, where the villager’s advice had appeared to be accurate, seeing only Thruni lying around half asleep. Ana praised the gods and ordered a charge straight at the camp, aiming to make the kill quick in case others were around. Siga and Arkur charged in but in their eagerness to impress Ana they made mistakes, clearly assuming one against 3 would be easy prey. The bandit leader grabbed her bronze spear, parried both initial strikes and counterstriked, hitting Siga in the left ankle, where Ana could hear a sickening cracking sound which seemed to indicate some form of break or fracture in the bone, causing her to crumple to the ground in pain. The bandit leader also thrusted her spear at Arkur’s head, with his bronze helm preventing tragedy and causing only bruising underneath. Another thrust to Siga’s right leg caused the same sound as the shot to the ankle and Ana feared the end was near her. In desperation Ana threw the copper dagger at Thruni, the inaccurate throw was deflected away by the bandit’s armour but the distraction it provided allowed Arkur to attack the bandit twice with his whip, each one causing noticeable damage to the bones. Ana came into the fight and swung at Thruni’s left arm, slicing it clean off. Without the ability to wield her spear she became easy prey, losing her other arm and her left leg before finally bleeding to death.

Upon her death Ana felt a sense of thrill, he had taken justice for his village in a way the lords would never do. He searched for a container in the hope that it may contain the money paid by his village and others that it may be returned to their rightful owners. His eyes fell upon a chest but after prising it open he found it was empty, simply a decoy whereas the real chest must be with the bandits who were collecting money at the moment. He smiled as he knew the bandit’s lust for power would consume them upon finding their leader dead; they would likely kill themselves trying to gain control and it would be many years before they were any sort of threat again. Although the chest was empty the item itself would fetch a fair price, made from mahogany wood with rings of cinnamon grossular and spikes of ivory. There was an image of On Soaredburned the current general of the kingdom who had tamed grizzly bears and leopards in certain regions of the land in black diamond. Ana wondered if this chest was from across the seas, as gems as valuable as diamond had never been seen on this island before, though he knew the lords and ladies would make sure no-one knew about such a discovery if it had been made.  He put it in his backpack with the intention to sell as he knew such gems would fetch a fair price on any market.

He and Arkur lifted Siga, who was drifting in and out of consciousness up and carried her to the nearest town where they slept the night. Siga made a remarkable recovery and was able to walk the next day with just scars though Ana had cursed himself the previous night for confining her to possible paralysation. They returned to Slipcraze and were greeted with large cheers from the people with a huge celebration held in their honour. Ana stayed distant throughout and let Siga and Arkur have most of the fun, in fact he started to beg of a way out if this was his future.
Just at that moment a peasant not from the village burst through the door, asking to speak with Ana. It seems that the hamlet Spooneddepth had heard of my deeds and wished my party to slay another bandit leader in their area by the name of Desli Seizedshore. Relieved, Ana said they would make haste the next morning and slept soundly that night.

[neotemplar]

Epic adventure.
Hero Level.
Killed 2 outlaws and was sent to kill an axe user.  Fought him 4 times running away for three due to wounds including my left hand cut off.  Last battle strangled him out with an arm and then kicked his brain in before I bled to death in the round after he died! (Had lost the use of my right hand as well.)

[Eric Blank]

I must kill a dark monster husband, in front of his wife and daughters!

Of course from the amount of human food bits in the cave I can forgive myself, just this once. I should probably come back with some friends though seeing as I'm outnumbered 4:1

[iceball3]

I must kill a dark monster husband, in front of his wife and daughters!

Of course from the amount of human food bits in the cave I can forgive myself, just this once. I should probably come back with some friends though seeing as I'm outnumbered 4:1

If you can barely outrun them and have at least shoddy ambush skill you can run in so they can see you, go just barely out of their front door so it closes, and begin sneaking. Stay 3 tiles away at all times, 2 tiles if you are proficient in ambush, and throw weapons at them. If all your weapons get stuck where they stand, turn off sneaking, dash around a corner, and begin sneaking again. That'll make them walk to where they last saw you. Using this, I've managed to clear out entire caves with playing as a peasant with all points toward ambush.

[Eric Blank]

Exactly what I tried. It worked for a while; I killed both of the dark monster husbands and one dark monster wife, but the second wife killed me. The child i knocked into the pool immediately before dieing.
So i was wrong, there were five of them. And they're all related too, bringing to question just how big a night creature population can become, as well as if they can have male children and a self-sustaining population, as all the children born have been female. I'm in legends and see there are plenty of them, the only dead being the three I took down.

[Cannabust]

Ebi lives on! Early in the morning his wound was reported as much better, being able to walk and use his copper knife.

he even recieved a title after he killed four goblins with his weapon. The free stroke of twilight, the peasant who survived an Ettin of murder and contempt.

Ha, Ahab's awesome! Ettin's are pretty freaking tough, even worse than hydras in my opinion.
...Just hope you don't meet any whales...

One of my first characters was quested with killing an ettin and i, being a total noob, attacked by myself, I got pretty far until the Ettin decided to strangle me for a whole slew of turns! Was a fun death indeed, and it felt so satisfying to murder Idah so painfully   even Ahab knows no fear! A whale in his view would be slaughtered in moments, after his group swarms it like a pack of pirhannas 

[Biag]

Urdim Solanzas Gur Aned, or Urdim Flagcrystals the Bowel of Sports, was an incredibly successful dwarven axeman. He was recognized as a hero in countless lands, and respected in many more; in many places, he was something of a legend. Thirty-six bandits fell to his red steel axe, as well as six night creatures, two Deep Crows, and sixty-nine wild animals. And that's not even counting the ones that were finished off by his companions.

But Urdim's not very interesting. What's interesting is his longest-lived companion, Ontzara Paintpraise. In one of Ontzara's first few battles, her left leg was sliced off at the hip by a bandit axeman. She crawled around for a long time, still gutting people with her spear and never taking a wound, but her luck didn't last forever. Urdim (and I) watched in horror as another bandit's sword arced towards her and cut her right arm off. I was sure she would bleed to death, but she didn't. It was her weapon arm, too, so I figured she would at least die in the next few battles.

Nope. Ontzara got so good at fighting unarmed (ha ha) that she was eventually rechristened a Wrestler. Her specialty was biting: she would crawl up to someone and bite their most vulnerable parts, then shake them around until the flesh ripped apart in her mouth.

Picture, if you will, a woman missing her left leg and right arm, crawling around and biting people in the midst of pitched battles. BITING. This NPC was more hardcore than almost any adventurer I've ever heard of, including all of my own. Urdim might have outlived her, but man, she was so much more badass. Sadly, some asshole shot her with a bow, and she suffocated shortly afterwards.

Dwarf Fortress has never made me quite so sad or quite so angry as I was when that happened. I feel like I should hold a funeral, but I don't know how.

[atomicoctobot]

Dwarf Fortress has never made me quite so sad or quite so angry as I was when that happened. I feel like I should hold a funeral, but I don't know how.

Gather the remains and leave them at a site(in a chest) for a Dwarf Fortress to obtain and create a burial chamber for? Is it possible to obtain coffins in Adventurer Mode and put items into these?

[toupz]

My doom dwarf (genesis) got struck down by an ettin, at least she* got to hit one of her giant boobies with his axe, she killed like 10 people already i hope she will keep the wounds i inflicted to her

[The Grackle]

My new adventurer just cut the hands and feet off a giantess.  Then he started wrestling her to get on the fast track to Legendary Wrestler.  So pretty normal. Then, the giantess grabs me by the back left lower tooth with her left leg(wtf?) and throws me.  Throws me so far that the screen I was on totally disappears, and I wake up in the middle of a herd of wild horses. (I might have actually landed on one, idk.)

I had to walk back over a fifty tiles, including over a murky pool, to find her again.  I assume that had I hit a tree or obstacle, I would have just fucking exploded.  Never seen anything quite like that before.  The crazy part is that it was like an instant teleportation, and none of the intermediate tiles got revealed by my flight. 

Edit: She actually did it a second time in the same fight! Though the fight was hundreds of rounds of me spamming close combat attacks.  This time she threw me by a toe straight north instead of southeast-ish.  I figure I can only luck out so many times, so I just came back and chopped her head off. 

[toupz]

My new adventurer just killed 17 goblins (Seventeen kills no joke) in the same area, i took my time to hide behind trees to block or avoid arrows and tried not getting circled by enemies, though i got hit from behind a few times, i ended up killing 17 goblins and lost my right arm grasp ability and can no longer use my legs i also got shot by crossbowman in right testicle and lost my testicle but im still alive i'm heading for a fort to retire amazed at what i did though, the goblins were not heavily armoured or armed but they had nice loot in their camp including a red steel pick

Edit: Char was demigod and steel dwarf that might have helped

[subject name here]

I got a quest to slay a Bronze Colossus that was on the other side of the country so I spent a week trudging up north to meet it and when I finally got to fight it the colossus smashes my characters arm and she spends the entire battle either passed out or crawling away while the colossus reduces all 10+ of her companions to screaming piles of broken bones and malfunctioning organs. So I had to flee back to a fortress to get more meatshields team mates and on the way to the fort was ambushed by bogeymen and standed in a murky pit and I had to manually wait until daybreak till I could travel out of it  .

So after that episode I got to a fort and hired more people and went back to fight the colossus who at this point was reduced to nothing but a head and torse that rolled around pushing people to death, so after finally killing it with the five companions who weren't crippled for life by it the monster turns into a statue of a dude named Tables Buckleworships.

Tables Buckleworships. It was all worth it just for that name alone.

[Uzu Bash]

I thought I'd get serious with 31.18 adventuring. As per usual, my lone adventurer is an elf who finds no shortage of redshirts to follow me, and eventually deposit their gear with a corpse that I must avenge after looting. Sometimes before; makes little difference.

But...no shops. I've found a lot of hamlets and one fortress, but nowhere to offload my burden for coin. Do humans no longer trade?